Re:Fukushima leak is 'much worse than we were led to believe'
by sesqu on Thursday August 22, 2013 @07:21PM
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> Nuclear accidents will kill you, as in -- dead.
They have been markedly less successful at that than other industrial accidents.
edit: Wikipedia suggests a total of about 9250 accidental deaths worldwide over the past 56 years related to nuclear research, power, weapons and therapy, of which some 126 died of radiation while the rest died from explosions and cancer (estimates vary; except for the 9000 deaths attributed to Chernobyl, the numbers likely discount some terminal cancers).
They have been markedly less successful at that than other industrial accidents.
edit: Wikipedia suggests a total of about 9250 accidental deaths worldwide over the past 56 years related to nuclear research, power, weapons and therapy, of which some 126 died of radiation while the rest died from explosions and cancer (estimates vary; except for the 9000 deaths attributed to Chernobyl, the numbers likely discount some terminal cancers).